Black Accountants Join with Top-10 CPA Firm in Diversity Push

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP has joined forces with one of the largest professional groups representing Black accountants to boost its minority hiring.

CLA, one of the 10 largest U.S. accounting firms, this week announced a multi-year commitment to work with the National Association of Black Accountants to grow the ranks of underrepresented professionals across its service lines.

As part of the arrangement, NABA will share space with the firm’s staff in Greenbelt, Maryland, and have access to CLA’s 120 other office locations nationwide. The firm and the association are partnering to create a work-study program, and the firm hopes to tap NABA’s ...